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ENI's hopes for smooth ride at ICSID over OPL 245 dashed by new stakeholders

Despite the Italian major's efforts to exclude them, three NGOs will now be involved in its arbitration proceedings with Nigeria, through which it hopes to prove that Abuja unfairly prevented it from developing the oil block. [...]

Published on 21/03/2023 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Nigeria
ENI's hopes for smooth ride at ICSID over OPL 245 dashed by new stakeholders

Nigeria
Transparency International bids to revive Malabu oil scandal case in Washington

Nigeria
Abuja agrees to settlement with ENI over OPL 245

Nigeria
Disputes still hound Nigeria's relations with ENI and Shell

Nigeria
ENI picks Bulgarian ex-foreign minister as its arbiter in dispute with NNPC over OPL 245

Spotlight | Nigeria
Malabu/OPL 245: ENI turns up the heat on American investment firm Drumcliffe Partners

Spotlight | Tunisia
Shell threatens to go to ICSID arbitration court